Loans, Logins, and Lasting the Course: Academic Library Use and Student Retention
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Activities and services that improve student engagement and retention in the higher education sector are important not only to individual students’ success but also to university planning and funding. This paper reports on a study carried out to explore whether use of the library by new university students is associated with continued enrolment. Limited to commencing students in March 2010 at Curtin University, the study drew on demographic data from the university’s enrolment system and instances of library use from the library’s management system. Results of the statistical analyses indicate that library use is associated with retention, and, importantly, that library use in the early weeks of a student’s first semester is associated with retention. Findings from this study suggest that academic libraries can contribute to the retention of students by offering carefully targeted programs and services.
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Haddow and Joseph found that a high proportion of withdrawn students had no or low use of library resources, particularly if they made no use of library resources early in the semester.
“The results showed that a high proportion of withdrawn students had no or low use of library resources, particularly if those withdrawn students made no use of library resources early in the semester.”
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Kuh, G. D., & Gonyea, R. M. (2003) · College & Research Libraries · doi:10.5860/crl.64.4.256 · Cited by 236 · see citing works
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Allison, D. (2015) · portal: Libraries and the Academy · doi:10.1353/pla.2015.0001 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
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Library and university governance: partners in student success
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- Authors
- Haddow, G., & Joseph, J.
- Affiliations
- Curtin University (AU)
- ORCID
- Haddow, Gaby
- Venue
- Australian Academic & Research Libraries
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 233-244
- ISSN
- 0004-8623 (ISSN-L)
- 1839-471X
- OpenAlex
- W2022108690
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 37.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Australian Academic & Research Libraries (publishedVersion)
- eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Keywords
- academic library use, student retention, new university students, library circulation, student engagement, library services, first semester, higher education, library management systems
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